A founding myth (Greek aition) is the
etiological myth that explains the origins of a
ritual or the founding of a city, group, belief, philosophy, discipline, idea, nation. A founding myth may serve as the primary
exemplum, as the myth of
Ixion was the original example of a murderer rendered unclean by his crime, who needed cleansing (
catharsis) of his impurity.
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